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Confirmed: Luis Fernando Suárez does not continue in the technical direction of Atlético Bucaramanga

Antioquia coach Luis Fernando Suárez will leave the technical direction of Atlético Bucaramanga to direct the Costa Rican National Team.

Through its social networks, the Costa Rican soccer federation made official the separation of Suárez with Atlético Bucaramanga, a cast to which he arrived in the middle of the first semester of the BetPlay I League in 2021.

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“Suárez is an experienced strategist, with 27 years of experience in the world of soccer and two World Cup participations in two different Confederations such as Conmebol (Ecuador in the 2006 World Cup) and Concacaf (with Honduras, in 2014). they were a fundamental element for the choice, ”the statement said.

Although the process at the helm of Atlético looked very good, without a doubt the arrival of a National Team proposal is more tempting for a technical director with an excellent resume in World Cups, with Ecuador and Honduras.

Suarez, 61, dissociated himself this weekend from Atlético Bucaramanga, a club he joined in February this year.

The Colombian will replace Ronald González, who was dismissed two weeks ago, after accumulating 11 games without victories, ten of them in class A games, a statistical negative shared by only nine other teams in the world.

The first challenge for the new helmsman will be the Concacaf Gold Cup, which will begin on July 10. In this tournament the Ticos will face Suriname, Jamaica and a rival yet to be defined in the first round.

Later, in September, the World Cup qualifying round will start with a FIFA date in which three games will be played.

Suárez would have surpassed in the election the Costa Rican Alexandre Guimaraes and the Venezuelan Rafael Dudamel, whom the press placed as the other members of the shortlist of candidates.

The last Colombian who led Costa Rica was Jorge Luis Pinto, who led the team to the quarterfinals of Brazil-2014, the best result of the Ticos in a World Cup.

Now, the task for Bucaramanga would be to find a replacement for Suárez, in addition to finishing reinforcing the team, with a couple of players, to play the BetPlay II League in 2021.

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